id: 138765 accession number: 1963.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.154 updated: 2025-07-03 20:49:09.427000 Statue of Gudea, c. 2144–2124 BCE. Mesopotamia, Neo-Sumerian, Iraq, Girsu. Dolerite; overall: 126 x 55 x 36 cm (49 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1963.154 title: Statue of Gudea title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 2144–2124 BCE creation date earliest: -2144 creation date latest: -2124 current location: 100 1916 Lobby creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Mesopotamia, Neo-Sumerian, Iraq, Girsu technique: dolerite department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 126 x 55 x 36 cm (49 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE I. E. Gejou or Elias S. David date: 1924-1938 footnotes: citations: Feuerdent Collection date: 1932-1946 footnotes: citations: Elias S. David date: 1946-1963 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 140011 Head of Gudea, ensi of Lagash, 2144–2124 BCE. Mesopotamia, Iraq, Lagash (Tello). Dolerite; overall: 21 x 17.8 x 20.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1963.680 relationship: --- CITATIONS Scheil, Vincent. "Nouvelles Statues de Gudea." Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale, volume 27, no. 4 (1930): 161-166, pl. V. page number: Mentioned on page 161-166, reproduced on plate 5 url: Parrot, André. Tello; Vingt Campagnes de Fouilles (1877-1933). Paris: A. Michel (1948): 167-169. page number: Mentioned on 167, reproduced on 169, pl. XVI, b url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Gudea, Patési of Lagash.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 9 (1963): 243–248. page number: Mentioned on 244-248, reproduced on 244-246 url: A. P. "Gudéa, Patesi de Lagash, dans The Cleveland Museum of Art, novembre 1963, pp.243-248." Syria 41, no. 1/2 (1964): 146–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4197449. page number: Mentioned on 146-147 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n34 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n32 Cleveland Museum of Art, Weisberg, Gabriel P., and Janson, H. W. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art (1975): 29. page number: Reproduced on page 29 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n22 Johansen, Flemming. Statues of Gudea, Ancient and Modern. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978): 23-24, 80-83. page number: Mentioned on 23-24, reproduced on 80-83. url: Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications (1989): 21. page number: Reproduced on page 21 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n19 Reade, Julian. "Early monuments in Gulf stone at the British Museum, with observations on some Gudea statues and the location of Agade." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 92 (2002): 276-284. page number: Mentioned on 281 and 284 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 67 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.154/1963.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.154/1963.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.154/1963.154_full.tif